Reflection on the Stolen Generation of Australia and its impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

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Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Reflection
Description
Throughout my entire semester my semester has been quite significant towards the
awareness of the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander community. In this semester my
personal perspective has been impacted to a greater extent.
Describe the issue that you have chosen and how has it impacted aboriginal and the Torres
strait Islander people?
In this essay, I will reflect on the stolen generation of Australia. The stolen generation
can be referred to as those children of the Australian aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander
descendants, who were removed from their families (Terszak, 2015). This has disrupted their life
style, has kept them deprived of their basic rights. The aboriginal families still had to cope up
with the trauma of separation from their roots and extended families

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Feelings
How did you feel about the issue before you were exposed to this unit?
Before the introduction to this unit, I had no idea about the aboriginal history as we never
had to read much about the aboriginal history at school. Hence, I had a biased notion regarding
the aboriginals.
How did you feel about the issue after you were exposed to the discussion?
Unfortunately after this, I felt that I had been fed some extremely false information about
the first people. My response to this unit was entirely different from what I had thought. I was
touched by the horrific tortures hat was carried over the indigenous children in the name of the
reforms. Getting away from the family just because of their aboriginal background and being
mistreated in the name of assimilation.
Critical evaluation
What was good/bad , why did you feel this way?
Previously I had a concept that most of the aboriginal members are associated with the
crimes, antisocial activities, binge drinking bear, drug abuse. I also had this concept in mind that
the aboriginals are more likely to be suffering from the mental health disorder related to drug
use. Before this essay, I had a concept that most of the aboriginal children were taken from the
Australian household were for their betterment and education, unlike the real truth where the
children were transformed in to slaves and had to suffer from immense hardship (Seran, 2015).